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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Woodside, CA ranks #231 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 504 patents from 104 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Woodside, CA include Apple, Medtronic, Rambus. That works out to 94.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 104 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Christopher J. Stringer Apple 191
2 Hanson S. Gifford, III Medtronic 30
3 Jared L. Zerbe Rambus 17
#4 Jeff Elkins Crux Biomedical 11
#4 Christopher M. Green Apple 11
#6 Henry Packard Moreton NVIDIA 9
#6 Benjamin J. Pope Apple 9
#6 Brian R. Land Apple 9
#9 Arnon Rosenthal Alector 7
#9 Michael Sleator Google 7
#9 Joshua H. Shaffer Apple 7
#12 Alexander Harry Little Apple 6
#12 Robert Bridger Apple 6
#12 Bjorn H. Hovland Leeo 6
#12 Franck Chastagnol Dropbox 6
#12 K. Angela Macfarlane Forsight Vision4 6
#17 Michael Eynon Truedata Systems 5
#17 Stephen J. Brown Health Hero Network 5
#17 Pius Brzoska Thermo Fisher 5
#17 Jana van Greunen Itron Networked Solutions 5
#17 Valery Axelrad Kilopass Technology 5
#17 Van L. Jacobson Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 5
#17 John B. Simpson Avinger 5
#17 Jeffrey Linnell X Development 5
#17 Jason Gary Krikorian Sling Media L.L.C. 5
#17 Paul Glendenning Micron 5
#27 Tilman Reinhardt Google 4
#27 Lee A. Flippin Fibrogen 4
#29 Friedrich B. Prinz Stanford University 3
#29 Marc T. Kaufman Adobe 3
#29 Ian Wright Ailive 3
#29 Nils Lonberg Bristol-Myers Squibb 3
#29 Neal Margulis Digital Display Innovations 3
#29 David YuanJei Tse AMD 3
#29 Jess Jan Young Lee Invisage Technologies 3
#29 Wenceslao Casares Lemon 3
#37 Wolfgang Lehrach Vicarious Fpc 2
#37 Saqib Jang Margalla Communications 2
#37 Rodney C. Perkins Earlens 2
#37 Joshua J. Sacks Google 2
#37 Kevin Lynch Apple 2
#37 Peter J. Bannon Tesla 2
#37 Peter Muller Unknown 2
#37 Juan E. Rodriguez Acco Brands 2
#37 Anatoliy V. Tsyrganovich Zilog 2
#37 Lisa Elkins Myoscience 2
#37 Juan R. Loaiza Oracle 2
#37 Amir Abolfathi Sonitus Medical 2
#37 John F. Krumme Beta Phase 2
#37 Peteris K. Augenbergs Apple 2

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